pasture
pasture 英 [ˈpɑ:stʃə(r)] 美 [ˈpæstʃə(r)]
n. 草地；牧场；牧草 vt. 放牧；吃草
进行时:pasturing 过去式:pastured 过去分词:pastured 第三人称单数:pastures 名词复数:pastures
- If your cattle are feeling hungry, you should let them pasture, or graze, in a grassy field known as a pasture. Pasture is both a noun and a verb associated with grazing animals.
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- n. 草地；牧场；牧草
- vt. 放牧；吃草
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1. They turned out cows to pasture.
他们放牛去吃草。
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2. The farmer laid the big field up for pasture.
农场主把这块大田留作牧场。
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3. Besides the mammoths, some other animals pasture in this valley as well.
除了猛犸象，还有一些其他动物在山谷牧场里。
- pasture (n.) c. 1300, "grass eaten by cattle," from Old French pasture "fodder, grass eaten by cattle" (12c., Modern French pâture), from Late Latin pastura "a feeding, grazing," from Latin pastus, past participle of pascere "to feed, graze," from PIE root *pa- "to feed." Meaning "land covered with vegetation suitable for grazing" is from early 14c. To be out to pasture "retired" is from 1945, from what was done (ideally) to horses after the active working life.
- pasture (v.) late 14c., of animals, "to graze;" early 15c., of humans, "to lead to pasture, to feed by putting in a pasture," from Old French pasturer (12c., Modern French pâturer, from pasture (see pasture (n.)). Related: Pastured; pasturing.
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